Miguel McMinn

📢 #Postdoc in #seabird #demography

Capture-recapture, IPMs and PVA. Analyses underway - great stage to join the project. Hybrid/remote possible. Apply: bit.ly/3P3yAM1

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@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social

En España hay unos dos millones de gatos dométicos viviendo en la calle y un número similar de animales con acceso libre al exterior
Pueden hibridar con el gato montés, sí. Pero el problema más serio tiene que ver con la transmisión de enfermedades
(1/2)
www.elconfidencial.com/medioambient...

Why Friday the 13th is a mathematical inevitability No bad luck here—just lots of fascinating math that explains why the 13th of a month so often falls on a Friday

Happy Friday the 13th! Celebrate by checking out this fascinating math showing that the 13th is actually more likely to fall on a Friday than other weekdays

El plasma es vital para muchos tratamientos médicos 💛🩸. Si eres donante de sangre, puedes donar plasma y ayudar a más pacientes. Cada donación cuenta y multiplica tu ayuda ❤️ 📲 Más información en www.donasang.org #DonaPlasma #ComparteTuBrilloInterior

Inside the Last Neanderthal Stronghold with Prof Alice Roberts | BBC Timestamp YouTube video by BBC Timestamp

Inside the Last Neanderthal Stronghold w/ Prof Alice Roberts🏺🧪
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFS7...

Not brutes, Neanderthals show signs of intelligence, adaptability, and cultural complexity.

@profaliceroberts.bsky.social travels to Gibraltar to explore what may have been final refuge of Neanderthals.

Mostly Grey Plover on Rose Beach Alnmouth Bay.#nebirding

#archaeobirds 🏺🪶

Last but not least in our 2025 Isle of May breeding summary:

Puffins nest in burrows, raising a single chick each summer before spending winter at sea. They take ~3 years to mature & can live for >30 years.

📊Breeding success: 0.75, above average
📉Adult survival: 82%, average

#IsleOfMay #Seabirds

Todo

Dudo que vuelva a vivir tiempos mejores.

🚗 What are the extinction drivers for Asian Crested Ibis in Japan?

📊 The last wild population on Sado Island assessed by an integrated population model: doi.org/10.1017/S095...

#BirdConservation #Ornithology #Research #CrestedIbis #Japan #extinction #population

Katharine Burr Blodgett’s brilliant legacy vanished from memory We trace the final chapter of Katharine Burr Blodgett’s career, her retirement from GE and her disappearance from public memory

The Lost Women of Science podcast wraps up a six-episode deep dive into the life of scientist Katharine Burr Blodgett—and explores how she disappeared from public knowledge

More photos from the Monte Vista crane festival. Cranes are just big goofy guys

Una tropa de babuinos gobernando sería menos letal.

EARLY VIEW in IBIS

The influence of a cooling water system on waterbird habitat use in a coastal environment | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Andreas C. Bryhn, Per B. Holliland, Torbjörn Säterberg | #ornithology 🪶

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Threatened cockatoo adapts foraging strategy to survive habitat loss from fire | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Patricia Mooney, Karleah Kyrene Berris, Mirjam Kaestli, Stephen Thomas Garnett | #ornithology 🪶

Qué hay detrás de la “masacre” de cientos de ciervos, gamos y venados en una finca pública de Ciudad Real El Seprona continúa indagando en la montería que abatió un 48% más del cupo de caza autorizado y por la que el Gobierno de Castilla-La Mancha estudia sanciones. Las responsabilidades apuntan a Cinegét...

Qué hay detrás de la “masacre” de cientos de ciervos, gamos y venados en una finca pública de Ciudad Real. El Seprona investiga una montería por abatir un 48% más del número de ejemplares autorizados www.eldiario.es/castilla-la-...

13 de marzo de 1941: nace Donella Meadows, científica ambiental y escritora. Autora de 'Límites al crecimiento' y 'Pensando en sistemas” fue una pionera del análisis ambiental y experta en dinámica de sistemas. donellameadows.org/wp-content/u...

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Relationships between chick vocalizations and parental absence in Kentish Plovers | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Dong-Yun Lee, Edward H. Miller, Ju-Hyun Lee, Woo-Yuel Kim, Seung-Jun Oh, Ha-Cheol Sung | #ornithology 🪶

Falta mucha cabeza y sobra testosterona.

‘Sly stowaway’ UK fox finds new home at Bronx Zoo after illicit transatlantic trip The fox is said to be ‘settling in well’ after mischievous 3,400 mile journey from Southampton to New York

....and some people question how a rat can stowaway on a ferry...if a fox can go undetected for 14 days on a cargo ship during a 3400 mile journey across the Atlantic it shows what's possible! #Biosecurity checks reduce the chance of animals stowing away on boats www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Rachel & Reid's routine surveillance trip to #Coquet to check for rat sign coincided with #TrinityHouse carrying out helicopter drops.The #Conservation #DetectionDog team were able to check cargo for suspicious signs & provide reassurance on top of checks already carried out by Trinity House & #RSPB

First fossil mosquito larva in 99-million-year-old amber with a modern type of morphology sheds light on the evolutionary history of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) have been hypothesized to have originated during the Jurassic Period, about 201–145 million years ago, primarily based…

El meteorito de Chicxulub (K–Pg) no pudo acabar con los mosquitos ☹️https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1342937X25003004?via%3Dihub

Sly fox sneaks on to cargo ship in Southampton and arrives in New York The animal that stowed away on the vessel is now in the care of the Bronx Zoo with veterinary staff.

Ship assisted vagrancy of European Red Fox
(Vulpes vulpes crucigera) to North America www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🧪🌍🦊

Wreck Concerns Thursday 12th March comments: it’s not been an easy few months for attempting to access the island (due to stormy weather) but more worryingly, our seabirds have had a very tough February and March…

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Reported major wreck of #seabirds along Atlantic coasts with large numbers washed in dead, mainly from starvation in SW England,Channel Islands,France,Spain,Portugal. Mostly due to prolonged severe winter storms. over 38,000 seabirds found dead since Feb.

Flightless Cormorant preening its vestigial wings - a Galapagos endemic, confined to just a few sites there. (Isabela Feb 2026) #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026

A war the west cannot win: Israeli journalist warns of strategic collapse in Iran conflict - TA NEA Alon Mizrahi, an Israeli journalist, one of the most outspoken Jewish commentators, said: this is a war the west cannot win: Israeli journalist warns of strategic collapse in Iran conflict. “We are wi...

@mmcminn.bsky.social De lo más lúcido que he leido sobre esta locura. Se publicó cuatro días después de que se iniciara. tanea.com.au/en/a-war-the...

«Luisa Carnés cuenta los brioches» – Hoja de Lata Babelia, El País. Marta Sanz: «Luisa Carnés usa la literatura como un arma cargada de futuro».

12 de marzo de 1964, muere en México D.F. la novelista y periodista Luisa Carnés. Se exilió a México, donde murió en el olvido. En su obra "Tea Rooms (Mujeres obreras)" (1934), trata la situación de las mujeres trabajadoras de los años 30. hojadelata.net/luisa-carnes...

Rosa Crujeiras será la primera rectora de la USC: “Rompemos un techo de cristal y no quiero ser la última” La catedrática de Estadística gana de forma clara las elecciones con el 61% de los votos ponderados frente a su rival Maite Flores, que se quedó en el 31%. | Cadena SER

Rosa Crujeiras, catedrática de Estadística, la primera mujer en acceder al cargo de rectora en Universidade de Santiago de Compostela en los más de cinco siglos de vida de la institución. cadenaser.com/galicia/2026...

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Acclimatization length and post-release spatial cohesion in translocated Griffon Vultures (Gyps fulvus) | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Jacopo Cerri et al | #ornithology 🪶